Finally saw it - cat out of the bag! Nice puzzle!!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 1:21 am
by Abide
This evil sage enjoyed it!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 8:26 am
by TMart
Cat’s out of the bag - great debut, Whimsy! More please!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 9:07 am
by Dave C
Cat's out of the bag. Great AHA moment.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:49 pm
by Cindy
Solved. Kitchendiva loved it.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 4:42 pm
by joequavis
Cat's out of the kitchen!
Great puzzle, Whimsy!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 5:30 pm
by Dplass
The prompt on the PDF is different. Intentional?
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 5:57 pm
by whimsy
A tiny spoiler in answer to Dplass' question if you're confused also -- Maybe I should have used the prompt "Somethin'' from the oven....." with 2 apostrophes after "somethin to indicate 2 letters could be missing.
Sorry for the possible confusion and misleading. I'm afraid I usually choose fun over exactitude!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:47 pm
by hcbirker
First time I’ve done a MEOW puzzle. I believe the cat is out of the bag?
Edit: confirmed
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:33 am
by whimsy
Hi -- Nudges for anybody still looking to solve -- As a follow-up to my earlier post#29, the answer is actually plural. All the asterisked entries are treated similarly, but with a bit of a difference between the one asterisk and the two asterisks. Sort of a backwards meta; rather picking out letters from the grid, you have to supply the letters.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:48 pm
by CPJohnson
Finally got it, confirmed by Whimsy, who kept me at it until I succeeded.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:35 pm
by Hidden in 3D
Whimsy just confirmed that I got the solution. I definitely needed the nudges, though! Such a fun puzzle!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:56 pm
by DrTom
Well that cat definitely almost cooked my goose! I needed Whimsy to tell me to do something that I really should have done earlier (but didn't of course). Wonderful debut puzzle and with that level of cleverness I expect to see a LOT more. I think EVERY Muggle should give it a try, it is quite fun and, as last week proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, quite humbling. Sometimes you just can't sugarcoat it.....
Thanks for almost an entire week of amusement Whimsy - now I need to go and cook dinner!
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 8:14 pm
by MaineMarge
Really fun to do this meta, Whimsy.
Great job
Early in our marriage, our crusty old Vermont landlord would take umbrage at folks from “away” who now called themselves Vermonters. He was fond of saying, “ if the cat has kittens in the oven,
Do you call them biscuits??”
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:52 pm
by cbarbee002
Well, after being hit by a 2x4 (or was it a 6x6?), Whimsy pulled me across the finish line. I was SO locked into looking at this puzzle one way (uh, not the right way) that I overlooked what is now, in hindsight, quite obvious. Great one Whimsy!!!
Someone snapped this picture of Whimsy pulling me across the finish line.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:37 am
by Dow Jones
Cat's out of the oven. Great debut, whimsy.
Re: MEOW #20: If You Can't Stand the Heat ...
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:42 am
by whimsy
Here's the solution, courtesy of, who else? Joe Ross.
Thank you all so much for playing along and indulging me!